Guilty in Illinois

When Roy L. Williams, president of the International Brotherhood of
Teamsters, was convicted last week in Chicago's U.S. District Court of
conspiring to bribe Senator Howard W. Cannon of Nevada, he was not
exactly breaking with Teamster tradition. In 1957 the union's
president, David Beck, was found guilty of embezzlement, larceny and
income tax evasion. Beck's successor, Jimmy Hoffa, got 13 years in 1964
for jury tampering, fraud and conspiracy. Williams, 67, had thrice
before escaped federal conviction. Said Chief Government Prosecutor
Douglas R. Roller after the verdict, "The...